Anyone like psychology, philosophy, or physics?
I recently found out I can chat with other listeners and members to just talk about random interests and I'm very excited 😃
I, personally, really enjoy discussing psychology, philosophy, and physics (the three Ps lol) because when you go high enough, they kind of blend together in a really satisfying way (specifically, if you're interested, because they build on each other; philosophy governs understanding and what's logical; physics drives the universe we live in; psychology describes the way we work. It's like 3 colored glass panes stacked on top of each other, look in from a side and you'll see something vastly different than if you looked at the pane alone :))
I've been writing about it for a long time and I'd love to chat about any one of those three you're interested in! Send me a message if you'd like :) and maybe respond here as well, so other like-minded folks can see that you're someone to talk to as well 💙
@raphael86
I absolutely love philosophy, Plato, Socrates, modern philosophers.
I love seeing how learning has changed and also how it is still the same.
I love challenging my perception of things.
I love knowledge 🥰
I enjoy all three and I like how you broke them down :)
I’m glad you did :) I just wonder what the fourth one will be in the future??? lol
physics
I love these topics. I'm happy to listen and participate. Not a lot of people want to delve into why ppl do what they do. I like understanding things.
@EmpathicOldSoul that's great to hear! would you want to set up a pen pals thread sometime?
I'm not sure what that means as I am a newbie, but if it means we can chat easier than I'm for it
I'm a psych student- so my knowledge is pretty rudimentary- but I'm always happy to talk and learn!
@SafetyPine3 that's interesting, because I've never been formally taught lol :) what I know comes from looking at evidence & theorizing, so I'd be very excited to talk to a real psyche student
@raphael86 And i've never done any proper research! Im sure we'll get along well haha
lol 😊 so are you self taught? Cause that’s pretty cool too :) how did you get into the field?
What topic would you like to discuss in more detail?
Anything really! I will admit there are some topics that bore me (more classical philosophy sometimes gets on my nerves) but honestly I’d talk about anything ;)
Lll catch up when free😊
I’ll be happy to hear from you :)
I'm interested in metaphysics and physics. I'm curious to learn about quantum mechanics as I had never done it during my time at university. It's a very strange thing because it is based upon randomness which feels unreal considering all we have ever truly understood about the universe is deterministic mechanics. I'd like to know more if anyone out there can enlighten me
Wish we could chat 1-on-1 but the group different :( I am actually currently taking a QM course, learning a lot and the determinism & definition question is something I’d love to talk about more! Maybe we can open a pen pals thread?
@raphael86 that's awesome that you're learning QM. I have a book by Leonard Susskind called the theoretical minimum which teaches physics in an approachable way yet still includes fundamental ideas and equations in it. There is one on QM but never got round to it yet. I have read the others and they were all very good. Do you have any other topics in physics which you're interested in?
@diligentShade426 I find QM & general relativity awfully interesting because they both operate perfectly on their scales, just like classical physics worked for hundreds of years until electricity and such
It almost feels to me as if scale is something very literally important to the universe, which I think we miss sometimes because we normalize quantities everywhere (the derivative is the perfect example- df/dx gets rid of any scale information, just leaves the df/dx relationship, which is also a weird example of how collapsing a 2D system (f and x) into 1D (single quantity df/dx) loses something without meaning to...). At small scales (tiny f and x) you get weird, ill-physically-defined fields. At our scale you get classical mechanics (normal f and x), and as you move up (big f and x) you get relativity. But if you only take f/x, all three look the same, which isn't how it actually is.
Sorry, that was long lol
Was just thinking about this actually, that’s also my “rationale for irrationals,” my guess as to why irrational numbers come up so often
If you think about angles, they’re really describing something pretty 2D, an arc, yet with only one number. Arcs are simple, sure, but there’s still maybe a loss of information- that’s the irrationality, the lack of a terminating value. It’s lost when you parameterize the arc in that format, which is why radians are so irrational. Or at least that’s my guess
Sorry for the very late reply. Yes, that is interesting that irrationals are prevalent throughout the universe. That's a really cool idea about. Just trying to understand it more but correct me if Im wrong since Im far from an expert in these things. So the fact that we live in a higher dimensional universe but trying to interpret it using the notion of scalars, is the reason why the divisibility of such things are lost? Hence, the irrational numbers. Or am I getting confused haha. Very cool idea either way.
@diligentShade426 exactly! You got it 😊
I am interested in quantum mechanics and how things connect
@diligentShade426 just realized i should include the ping 😅
I majored in philosophy and absolutely love talking about it!
@Chris909 Oh wow! That's awesome :) I feel very underqualified to speak with you and also yes!!! I'd love to chat
that doesnt mean im qualified lol
@Chris909 ha I mean I'm 16 (actually 15, my birthday's in a month...) so in comparison anyone's more qualified I think 😅 and also qualification isnt everything (I'd hope)
What topic should we discuss
@raphael86 well thing is dude, is that im the smartest man alive EVERYONE and i mean EVERYONE got their ideas from me
@creativeScarf316 hmm, sounds legit 🤔
